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The prize for the April challenge is four pots of Luminarte Silks Acrylic Glaze!

Silks are gorgeous iridescent and semi transparent acrylic glaze paints in a variety of shimmering colours. They can be used on paper, wood, fabric, papier mache, acrylic and other plastics, canvas, clay and much more. These paints are used by some of the most prominent mixed media artists in the business!

The best thing is, the prize IS NOT ( necessarily) the colours pictured above! The winner gets to choose which four colours they get...and with 72 to choose from, that could be a difficult decision!

PLUS:The Design Team will have a look at all your gorgeous work, and choose
their Top Three..... and the overall Winner will get published in Craft
Stamper magazine! Yes, the winning
entry will appear in the UK's number one stamping magazine!

AND: The Challenge winner will be offered a Guest Designer spot for an upcoming challenge!

So, to recap....A 'choose your own colours' set of 4 Luminarte Silks Glazes, publication AND a Guest DT spot? Sounds good to me!

Now for the Challenge details! We want to see how you lovely lot tackle a technique showcased in Craft
Stamper
magazine.

France Papillon has a wonderful project in the May issue, using recycled glass bottles. The free cover stamp this month also features bottles, and this gorgeous design by R Maria Sabina has been used to great effect on pages 41-3.
So, we would love to see your creations using BOTTLESWe would love to see:

Creations featuring bottles or vials as a main feature

Altered bottles

Projects featuring stamped images of bottles

Wine bottle covers, labels or tags

Your
project can
be of any theme or colour.Don't forget, we also MUST have real stamping on each entry, this is a Craft Stamper challenge after all!

Along
with some of the regular Craft Stamper DT, the Take It , Make It DT have created some
fabulous eye candy using bottles. If you click on the
artists name, it will take you to their blogs, where there may well be
loads
more pics of these gorgeous creations!

Winner to be announced in a
blog post here: 9am Friday April 25th 2014

All entries must feature bottles, in one of the ways detailed above.

All entries must contain stamping.

No digi stamps please, unless
combined with actual stamping.

The winning entry MUST be
posted to the magazine for photography before it can be published. Please
keep hold of your entry, we cannot publish in the magazine images sent via
computer.

Entry is via the linking
tool at the end of the post. We are very sorry that we can't accept email
entries to this challenge. Please provide deep links to your actual
project post, not just a link to your blog (to do this, click
on the title
of the relevant blog entry and copy/paste the URL in the relevant
box when uploading your entry). The DT will not go searching your entire blog for the project we want to
see!

No backlinking.

New work
only please, not work previously published anywhere else.

Entry is welcome from
anywhere in the world.

Multiple entry is fine, as
long as each piece is original and fulfills all the entry requirements.

Entries can be combined
with other blog challenges

An obvious link back to the Craft Stamper Blog must be included in your blog post.

The May 2014 challenge will
be announced here on Friday May 2nd 2014, at 9am.

PLEASE consider turning off word verification on your
blog. It is very difficult for the DT to comment on as many blogs as we would
like to when word verification slows us down!

Competition rules: Competitions/giveaways are
open to all (including overseas readers) except employees of Traplet
Publications Ltd and their families; regular contributors to any of Traplet
Publications’ magazines; employees of our printers; or anyone connected with
the prizes offered. By entering the competition you accept that your project
may be printed in the magazine. All entries must be received by midnight on the
specified closing date. There are no cash alternatives and prizes are
non-transferable. We reserve the right to use the winners’ name/work in any
Traplet-produced literature including, but not exclusive to, our website and
marketing materials. Judges decision is final and no correspondence will be
entered into.